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For everyone who love classical storiesfrom many centuries until milleniumwith some great story-teller around the worldthese is just some compilation of epic-storiesthat I've read and loved so many times... an everlasting stories and memories ...

I’ve been known A Christmas
Carol story just like common people, through songs, poets, and of course the
latest movies adaptation play by Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. But this is my
first time actually read it Dickens’ original books (even thou is a translation
edition), and my perspective on this changes immediately. For several years, I’m
thinking Christmas Carol jusat another story-telling for children, specially
around Christmas Eve. But now I know that was really wrong, and quite the
opposite. This is a story about a man who had known as the greedy, grudge,
bitter, and named as the bad exampler when ever everybody talks about something
theydidn’t like. The truth behind this
story, Scrooge is an ordinary man, who had falling, hard-falls in his life, and
he lost his spirits throgh the battle between good and evil, and he choose the
wrong path into his life.

What amazingly, Dickens puts ‘magic’
and ‘supranatural’ into the story, about the journey of lost man searching his
soul and find the real truth hidden so deep, buried into his past. Through the
known characters as ‘Three Ghosts’ : Ghost from Past – Present – Future,
Scrooge re-live and changes his entire purpose of life and find new meaning to
rejoice and acceptence the ‘gift’ from Almighty. I never though reading the
visitation of these ‘ghosts’ ca be really scary yet touch the deepest feeling
inside me. Can you imagine what kind of person Ebenezer Scrooge in childhood
until he grews-up ? Was he born as the ugly, bitter, grudge person ?
Suprisingly, he just like any others human being. Born and raise with love and
caring, had dreams and seeking out the purpose of his life with enthusiasm and
great imagination. But somehow, between those journey, he had to face something
– something that makes his mind changes and it can says that he sold his soul
into the devil’s.

I think that why this story can
still reconnect with all readers after many century, from man and woman, from
young people until the oldest. They – I pressume just like my self, had find ‘a
piece’ of our souls in this character of Ebenezer Scrooge. We might not as
greedy as him, nor always grudging about the life, but we all had life on past
that give another meaning on our present life, and who knows what kind of life
we will have in the future. Secondly, I’m also thinking, the thought that we
can change or said re-live our life just like changing ‘switch’ on ‘remote-control’
of our life – that was quite tempting. If Ebenezer Scrooge got his second
chance to live another life, can we all had the same and equal chance too ? For
all our lost dreams, our lost relationship with someone we love, our regrets
not doing a better job in the past. But then this story got the best ending,
you – yourself can changing all that in the past, even it is happen yesterday,
by focusing on what matter today – cherish all that, give thanks on His
Blessing and do the best thing you got every day, every hours, every minutes,
every seconds. This is a quite short story, but I don’t why it’s gotten so deep
inside my mind, scary but love it for the same time.